Module: Consumer Economics (5301-610)

Persons:

• Prof. Dr. Alfonso Sousa-Poza (verantwortlich)

Degree Program:

• Economics (WS 16/17) (Master, since 01.10.2016)
  3. Semester, semi-elective
• Economics (WS 17/18) (Master, since 01.10.2016)
  3. Semester, semi-elective
• Economics (WS 16/17) (Master, since 01.10.2016)
  3. Semester, elective
• International Business and Economics (WS 16/17) (Master, since 01.10.2016)
  3. Semester, elective
• Management (WS 16/17) (Master, since 01.10.2016)
  3. Semester, elective
• Economics (WS 17/18) (Master, since 01.10.2016)
  3. Semester, elective
• International Business and Economics (WS 17/18) (Master, since 01.10.2016)
  3. Semester, elective
• Management (WS 17/18) (Master, since 01.10.2016)
  3. Semester, elective

Relation to other Modules:

None

Prerequisites for Attendance:

None

Sprache:

English

ECTS:

6 credits

Frequency:

every winter semester

Length of the Module:

1 semester

Compulsory assignment:

written examination

Length of the examination:

60 minutes

Workload:

180 hours: 56 hours lecture 124 hours preperation and follow-up, perperation for the exam and exam

Professional competences:

Students possess an in-depth understanding of life-cycle consumption and savings decisions. Their know-how includes methodological skills to model consumption and savings decisions in an intertemporal context and under imperfect markets and uncertainty. The way we save and consume influences economic growth, fiscal policy and capital accumulation - topics that will be addressed in the framework of neoclassical growth theory. They are in a good position to examine the motivations for, and implications of financial transfers between parents and their children, as well as investments by parents in their children´s human capital.

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